dextrorse

adjective

1. Growing in a pattern that spirals clockwise around a central support; turning to the right when growing taller.

   They are arranged in distinct dextrorse spirals, and are about one length apart.

2. Having a negative torsion.

Where it comes from

From Latin dextrorsum, contracted from dextrovorsum, dextroversum (“toward the right side”), from dexter (“right”) + versus, vorsus, past participle of vertere, vortere (“to turn”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry dextrorse (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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